Debian Security Advisory
DLA-953-1 graphicsmagick -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 26 May 2017
- Affected Packages:
- graphicsmagick
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 862967.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9098. - More information:
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Chris Evans discovered that graphicsmagick used uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an remote attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space.
More information are available at: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.html
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.16-1.1+deb7u7.We recommend that you upgrade your graphicsmagick packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS